Welcome the mayor of the city of hampton. Please take your seat. Welcome to the 400th anniversary of the first landing ceremony. It is my honor to welcome governor ralph northern and pamela them. Justin fairfax, attorney general mark herring, mark warner and senator tim kane. U. S. Representative bobby scott of virginia and karen bass of california and representative william clay of missouri. The speaker of the house, cox, first counselor tested former virginia governor, cheryl delisles. Also robert mcdonnell. Former representatives and test it. First Circuit Court of appeals. Members of the cabinet. Also the General Assembly including thomas norman, kenny alexander, john wrote and joseph green junior and the members of the 400 years of africanAmerican History. National park service officials, including daniel smith, and david cella. The vice mayor jimmy gray and members of the city council. Also other special guests. On behalf of the members of city council, our city staff and residen
But there is a potential and we have participated in this way. And there are many online interest in these issues. So should there come a day when we can engage with them more transparently. And i think that the government has done some important things from their symbolic first few days in terms of reopening this investigation and trying to continue this from that. Including what others are taking in terms of procurement to try to constrain corruption. We talked about it quite openly and transparently. Its part of the speech in terms of what has to be done in afghanistan. Certainly in terms of appointing a rod range of ministers and governors, this is something that there is a common interest in. So we continued to do everything that we can to work with this and others in terms of the importance of their investigation and demonstrating their accountability and we will continue to do so. Im going to make just a quick note on that. And afghanistan is going from a fairly corrupt system t
This week on q a, a professor and former federal prosecutor randall allies and who writes a blog called sidebars talks about the federal Corruption Case against u. S. Senator bob menendez new jersey. Eliasson, before i ask us about this case, give some background about how you got into the business of the law and the relationship between the federal prosecutor and somebody in politics . i came to washington for my first job at a private law firm. I worked there as a federal prosecutor for 12 years. Both of the time in that office i was in what they call the public corruption and government fraud section. I was focusing on cases involving public corruption and fraud against the government, both medical both federal and local officials. By the time i left, i was serving as the chief of that section. I was supervising the attorneys focusing on those cases. I left the office in 2000 want to help test so i could start teaching and writing on a parttime basis. Teaching whitecollar criminal l
Roads if at all possible. Now were also hearing about evacuation orders for parts of the huntington area of fairfax county. This impacts People Living along fenwick drive and arlington terrace. You may remember the huntington neighborhood has been prone to flooding before. Weve got a crew heading that way. Well bring you a live report as soon as possible. Lets get the latest where the storm is right now from topper. Shes essentially sitting in southern new jersey now right between ocean city, new jersey, and also cape may. Maximum established winds 90 Miles Per Hour, gusts to 115 and were looking at oddly enough, we talked about this a little bit at least behind the scenes that some of the Hurricane Force winds now are actually south of the track as opposed to north of the track. Well keep an eye on that as we go through the next several hours. Its starting to get critical. Lets talk about wind gusts. For more on that heres meteorologist erica grow. Thats right. You can see where the w
A new report from the Washington Post says the cia is reporting the russians were indeed involved. This news is getting lots of reaction from both campaigns and members of congress. We have Fox Team Coverage at this hour. Caroline is live from our washington newsroom with more on the fallout from these charges by the cia. But we begin with bryan llenas at the trump tower on the trump transition. Bryan . Reporter president elect trump tells our Chris Wallace that hes very close but has not yet settled on a decision on who will be ace secretary of state. The Trump Transition Team says we wont expect an announcement until next week at the earliest. Also, on top of that, the Trump Transition Team confirms that trump met with exxonmobils ceo, rex tillerson, today. Thats the second meeting they have had. All eyes are on tillerson, thought to be under serious consideration for the secretary of state post. This is the second meeting the two men have had watt trump tower. Hes been at exxonmobil